Example sentences of "[be] [verb] five year " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 24 year old woman had been diagnosed five years previously and had persistent abdominal pain , diarrhoea , and ill health despite repeated courses of steroids . |
| 2 | The thing that worries some people is that as it 's come at this particular time that some of the things that might have been done five years ago by Local Education Authorities to improve their whole education for children with special needs may now , either through other competing financial pressures , or through inertia or whatever , the whole spirit of Warnock could be lost , and I think it 's a thing that , you know , one will have to keep a careful eye on . |
| 3 | They still have n't been regraded five years later . |
| 4 | The Law Society produced a paper on the subject in 1981 against the background of the difficulties mentioned above to which the attention of the Royal Commission on Legal Services had already been drawn five years previously . |
| 5 | been retired five years now , that was eighty two , yes . |
| 6 | Survival following a diagnosis of KS is much better , as up to 80% of people with KS are alive one year later , and to be living five years later is not uncommon . |
| 7 | The need for a wider focus had been signalled five years earlier when the merger of the Howard Association and the prison Reform League resulted in the establishment of the Howard League for Penal Reform . |
| 8 | We were divorced five years later . |
| 9 | The numbers of patients on the island have declined since new arrivals were cut five years ago . |
| 10 | but if you were to spend five years learning weird codes |
| 11 | William Bird 's wife Jean had been killed five years before in an horrific road accident involving a drunken driver . |
| 12 | And since Felicity — that 's my wife — ca n't now experience what 's happening five years ago — because it 's receding faster than the speed of light , and the speed of light is a constant which , as we know from Einsteinian physics , can not be exceeded … |
| 13 | It 's taken five years of your life , but at least you 're getting your just rewards now . ’ |
| 14 | It 's taken five years and sixty thousand pounds to get this far … half way . |
| 15 | In the old days , which is to say five years ago or so , the phrase you would most often hear issuing from the yet-to-be father was , ‘ Yes , of course we 'll have children . |
| 16 | The inquest had heard that changes to the hot water system at the home where the boy died had been ordered five years ago , but that the work was only done AFTER the boy 's death . |
| 17 | James Shaw was given five years for his part in a later plot to kill Stephen Brown by knocking him down with a car . |
| 18 | MY WORST and only health problem developed after I was mugged five years ago outside the Embassy Club in Manchester , which I 've run for 32 years . |
| 19 | She was diagnosed five years ago , about the time David Markham went out of her life . ’ |
| 20 | For my part , while I accept the housing market has changed radically since and was decided five years ago . |
| 21 | It was founded five years ago as a small voluntary organisation and now has grown to a membership of 275 and a permanent secretariat with full time staff . |
| 22 | Aviemore Cottage , built around 1886 , was demolished five years ago to make way for a block of flats — some of which have never been sold — while Aviemore House , a posting station on the old stagecoach route from Inverness , was pulled down by a property consortium in the 1960s . |
| 23 | Since it was restructured five years ago ( see Nature 332 , 197 ; 1988 ) , the CSIR has tried to obtain a larger proportion of its income from both the private and public sectors for consulting . |
| 24 | ‘ Tactel ’ is the clothing range which is of particular importance in the sports and leisure area , and was introduced five years ago in skiwear . |
| 25 | the fact that the bereavement sum of £3,500 is arbitrary and was set five years ago . |
| 26 | The building was restored five years ago by the Irish government , at the cost of £21 million . |
| 27 | She was arrested five years ago by a Cairo narcotics squad who found £3m worth of heroin hidden in a concealed compartment of an ornamental wooden elephant she was carrying through the capital 's airport . |
| 28 | This Act was enacted five years before the federal Act of that name and highlights the tendency for California to lead the way in pollution control legislation , with the federal government following in its footsteps . |
| 29 | The last ship was sunk five years eight months and four days later . |
| 30 | The report was filed five years previously ; the opposing Counsel has a copy and , you may be sure , is thoroughly familiar with every page of it . |